The Middle Ages were not all about tyrannical rulers and power struggles. Cooperation, compromise, and women in power were ...

Back in the Middle Ages, people had a supernatural explanation for almost everything. In their minds, spirits lurked in every ...

Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion ...

The final chapter describes how the Middle Ages acquired an undeserved reputation as an age ... the book remains a rich resource for examples of intellectual life in medieval universities, and ...

We need to remember that even in the middle of dealing with whatever big thing is happening now: We are alive.

What was life like in medieval society? Most medieval people lived in villages, as there were few large towns in the Middle Ages. The majority of people were peasants. The Church's role in ...

NOVA: When we think of life inside a medieval castle ... Holmes: Well, by our standards, cleanliness in the Middle Ages was pretty poor. Clearly, a castle was slightly better maintained than ...

In seventh-century Emesa, Syria, a man walked through town tugging a dead dog on the end of a rope. He defecated in public, ...

Using the objects to address broad interdisciplinary questions concerning Islamic, Byzantine and European societies, it brings the Middle Ages back to life in a sophisticated and intelligent way.' ...

Like many other films about the Middle Ages from the 21st century, it doesn’t shy away from the dirt, blood, and violence of this pivotal period in Scottish history.

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